Since we’ve gotten our puppy son my wife and I ahve become quite the budding dog enthusiasts. We’ve been taking him to the dog park in fremont as often as possible; and as concerned parents we’ve been paying close attention to everything. One thing that we’ve noticed is that puppies have friends and BEST friends. [...]
So, in noticing general trends, I seem to have uncovered an (in retrospect) obvious link between cheap routers, port forwards, and network disconnects. It seems that, on a cheap router, if you have X port forwards you are increasingly likely to have random disconnects and such (especially with wifi) as X increases… so if your [...]
The most amusing things happen when you’re been coding a long time. I found, and used a “hole” in one of our database routines (which has since been fixed) getOneValueFromTable($srcTable, $srcField, $whereField, $whereValue); produces SQL like “SELECT $srcField FROM $srcTable WHERE $whereField = ‘$whereValue’”. Can you spot the potential problems in something like this? Consider [...]
Like scott mentioned I’ve been grinding like a madman on Ookles. It’s been a long stretch of solid work but we’re coming near a real product. Dont get me wrong, theres still a lot of work to be done, but we’ve got something to work on now. It’s one thing to be putting together a [...]
I’m constantly amazed by the power of the human condition. How our spirit and drive push us towards excellence. And how, under the most adverse conditions, we find in ourselves with the drive to change our very reality into something better. When we’re down and out we find that we’re wise, intelligent, powerful, cunning, thorough, [...]